There is still a keyword tool, but it works differently. You can now drill down your business type more accurately. I tend to use a combination of keyword tools and my own intelligence/instinct in order to ensure that every possible phrase combination is covered (it's worth learning to use the CONCATENATE function in Excel if you don't already - it will save you a lot of time when creating extensive keyword lists!)
I have been going around telling everybody not to worry as if you sign up to adwords there is one built in called keyword planner. Also bing has one as well you can check out. If you're looking to pay for a high quality version you should look into market samurai.
I’ve been using Keyword country all along to reverse engineer upto 96% of my competitors’ profit keywords...I’ve had a play around with other tools too but nothing like KC...It offers a risk free trial for 7 days. If you don't like it... just bail out There is nothing to lose.
Here's a great FREE way to do keyword research now that Google has screwed up the keyword tool. Go to sitebildz.com. Register for a free account. Go to the keyword research tool. Enter your main keyword. Let the software run it's diagnostics...it will return green keywords (easy to rank for) yellow keywords (can be ranked for with work) and red keyword (don't even bother). Totally free and very easy to work. Go wide with your keywords and create 100s of green keywords in an Excel sheet. kev
I reckon it is still useful as a free keyword research tool when you choose the second option Get search volume for list of keywords. Enter the keywords and press the blue button which may be greyed lighter. This is then grouped into one if you listed several different keywords. Click the self made title to expand the collection again. You should then be able to see searches per month on your keywords
I am confused also, I can not use google keyword tool, alternatively, I use; • Free Keyword Tools 1.nichetaxi 2).spyfu 3)keyword.secretstohighprofit • Paid Keyword Tools 1)keywordcountry– allows you to maximize AdSense earnings and search over 600,000 niche keywords 2) adwordanalyzer – helps uncover targeted niche markets and maximize AdSense Campaigns 3) keywordelite- helps to uncover niche keywords and analyzes PPC campaign competition
As many of you mentioned correctly, Google is still offering a keyword tool but with less features than the previous one. Unfortunately it seems that to have a good keyword tool one has to pay.
hi, i prefer you to use spyfu.com also if you specially using SEM. Also Google keyword planner is not bad but best. thank you.
Now Keyword Planner is very popular among the keyword tools as it is the Google's best tool. Everybody is now focusing on the keyword planner to get latest updated keywords.